Americans No Longer Believe It Important To Be Honest
The Lies Of Our Leaders

By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net
6-16-3

President Bush and virtually the entire American power structure lied to the
whole world when they said Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that were
an imminent threat to the safety of the so-called free world.

Now beyond any doubt, these assertions have since been exposed as falsehoods.
Still, few Americans really care , and business goes on, in the foreshadow of
a massive worldwide economic collapse, as usual.

President Bush and virtually the entire American power structure lied when
they said we needed to invade Afghanistan to bring to justice the alleged perpetrators
of the 9/11 horror. Shortly after the invasion began, Gen. Tommy Franks announced
it wasn't important to capture the so-called ringleader, Osama bin Laden, even
as the Afghanis' Taliban government offered to furnish him for trial in a neutral
country. The real objective, Franks said during the attack, was to subdue the
whole country.

With the fictional al-Qaeda network still being used as a pretext for permanent
war against the entire world by the United States and bin Laden still uncaptured,
it has become obvious to everyone that the reason for obliterating Afghanistan
with nuclear weapons and murdering tens of thousands of innocent people was
something other than capturing a suspected terrorist, although none of us are
quite sure what that reason was. Talk of Enron, oil pipelines and geopolitical
strategies are generally censored from the television news.

The situation is identical is Iraq. What was the purpose of blasting several
thousand innocents into heaven when the situation it produced is actually more
of a threat to our security than was the continued dictatorship of Saddam Hussein?
None of us are quite sure what that reason was, although we all have our favorite
suspicions: oil, Israel, expenditure of military stockpiles and creation of
lucrative contracts for corporate supporters of the war machine to revive a
disintegrating American economy.

Those two lies " justifying depraved mass murder in two defenseless countries
" now stand as the ranking horrors in American history. In the 227 years
of our history, from the smallpox blankets of Colonial days to Waco, America
has done nothing worse (although many military adventures, notably the Philippines
in 1899 and Vietnam in the the 1960s, were almost as bad and unjustifiable).

But the real question as America sinks into the suffocating hell of a totalitarian
dictatorship is this.

If our leaders have been proved to be liars about the sick and sinful destruction
of humanity in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do a majority of Americans still accept
what these same lying leaders said about the 9/11 atrocity, that it was the
work of foreign terrorists who envied our freedom! As Gerard Holmgren once so
aptly said, this is the most ridiculous of all conspiracy theories to believe.

To a special few, responsibility for the 9/11 butchery has always been obvious.
Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote about the need for it in a book, and the Republican-dominated
Project for a New American Century recommended it as a desirable event for achieving
its goals.

But most simpleton Americans are afraid to even contemplate such a frightening
possibility. They would prefer to believe the lie, without really realizing
what will happen to them if they do.

In the history of the world, there has never been a bigger lie than 9/11, yet
most Americans still cling in closed-minded terror to the official story, swallow
their pride at airports as minimum-wage fascists probe their private parts,
stick flag decals on their cars in hopes they won't be pulled over and jailed
for something they don't expect by Ashcroft's new stormtroopers, and watch in
numbed banality as the official government investigation begins by saying they
already know who did it, so there's no sense investigating that.

Americans have swallowed the lie whole-hog that we need to beef up security
because there are terrorists in our midst, when the obvious fact is that the
terrorists reside in Washington, and are terrorizing the whole world, with the
eager help of your neighbors, the corrupt local police and corrupt local judges,
who accept what their superiors order them to do just as the guards at Auschwitz
did.

Let that one roll through your mind: American cops are now just the guards
at Auschwitz, participating in the elimination of all those who won't participate
in the American master plan of enslaving the world. Can you say "death
chamber" at Guantanamo with no real trial?

How can this possibly be happening? How can Americans have gone brain-dead
all at once? It didn't happen overnight, I can tell you. From the Kennedy assassination
onward, Americans have been conditioned to accept phony excuses for political
crimes as protests and questions are all blunted in a mind-numbing miasma of
bureaucratic mazes. So everyone gave up trying to ask questions, and rationalized
their indifference as not critical to my survival. Time to guess again.

Even more disturbing than the murderous plans of Bush and his gang of manipulators
is the silent acquiescence of the so-called opposition. These "liberal"
Democrats CREATED the Patriot Act, which castrates our Constitution.
These gutless bureaucrats, ever mindful of the need to attract corporate campaign
contributions, went along with Bush's invasions for fear of losing the votes
of mindless, flag-waving fascist Americans.

Consider the Democratic opposition for a moment: Hillary Clinton, Kerry, Lieberman,
Gephardt, Edwards, Dean, Mosely-Braun, Sharpton " all but one of the Democratic
candidates BACKED the military moves of Bush. And all of them "
no exceptions " endorse the lies we have been told about 9/11, as well
as the fiction that Israel is a benevolent democracy.

I get a big laugh out of all these calls for petitions on various issues. Ha.
And the same goes double for all this talk about the next election. Ha ha. The
elections of 2000 proved Americans no longer have elections. It doesn't matter
who you vote for. Who they want to win will win, and they have both the technological
expertise and the cash on hand to make it happen. Just ask any Supreme Court
justice.

Take your presidential candidate and stuff him. The American system of democracy
is dead. The presidential campaign is a sideshow to delude the American populace
into thinking they still have choice about what happens.

Bulletin: they don't.

No one in Congress is telling the truth (OK, you might find one or two who
are telling the truth about SOME things, one less without Paul Wellstone, who
was clearly murdered).

No candidate for any office anywhere in the United States is saying that 9/11
was a hoax, a cynical gambit to scare the American people into accepting police
state measures. That's why no candidate now running for any office is telling
the truth.

No one who thinks of running public office can seriously entertain the notion
they can fix anything ... When morality is relative, evil prevails, because
temptation and corruption are the human conditions.

No one running for public office will begin to address the obvious issue that
9/11 was aimed at defaming Muslims, thereby legitimizing two horrible American
crimes: the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, and the conquest of all the
oil resources in the world.

And when the religions themselves have grown corrupt by their own power over
people, there is no hope, anarchy follows and chaos triumphs. There is no hope.
That is the situation we now face.

Eventually, after thousands of photos of bloodied bodies, after all the uteruses
of our soldiers' wives are bleeding from the effects of radioactive ammunition,
after you realize that one day you are out of money and there's nowhere to get
more because the fat cats have stolen it all and surrounded themselves with
Wackenhut wackos, you'll come to the realization about blame.

There's no real sense blaming Jews or Catholics, or oil executives or money
launderers. We've done all this to ourselves, simply by not paying attention
to what's actually happening.

It isn't Bush or Daschle who are the real scumbags, the real killers of innocent
people in the pursuit of profit. It's nobody us but us, we the intelligent citizens
of the world who failed to pay attention, or took a bribe, or looked the other
way when we saw somebody doing something wrong because it was easier that way.

It is we who kept our mouths shut during all those scams, Vietnam, the savings
and loan robbery, Waco, 9/11. We were too afraid to ask real questions, and
thought we could get by waving our flags and going along with the crowd. But
each new government atrocity got worse, right up through 9/11.

And, sadly, the worst has yet to come.

It's too late now. Nothing can be done. They can't be stopped. We waited too
long. We waited until they had amassed their armies, their biological identification
devices, their roadblocks, their internment camps for protesters, the death
penalty in Oregon for protesting, their genetically modified food supply (guaranteeing
billions of needless deaths), their aluminumization of our atmosphere, their
privatization of our water, their shaping of our very brains through educational
philosophies and entertainment programming until our minds were so zapped out
on misleading trivialities that we couldn't even ask the most basic question
of all anymore.

Which is this: Why couldn't we see this would happen because we didn't pay
attention to all those other horrors?

Why didn't we know you can't turn your back on the world, and expect the world
to still be there when you turn back around?

There is no forgiveness, and no way to put things right without a massive bloodbath
now. Which is just what they wanted, just what they practice. They've won. And
we've lost.

But don't blame it on the lies of our leaders. Blame it on the lies we told
" and are still telling " ourselves.